Perhaps this demonstrates a lack of creative initiative, but one would believe that if a director was to tackle a subject as weighty as the Armenian genocide, they would not choose to use it as a backdrop to a schmaltzy…
TIFF Review: The Promise
For more TIFF 2016 coverage, go here. Perhaps this demonstrates a lack of creative initiative, but one would believe that if a director was to tackle a subject as weighty as the Armenian genocide, they would not choose to use…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘The Walk’
We’re always told to reach for the stars, but the closest most of us get is flying in an airplane (with the clear exception of astronauts). In a magnificently rendered vision of New York City in the 70’s, one man performs…
Robert Zemeckis’ ‘The Walk’ Gets a New Trailer
Robert Zemeckis has been hidden for a while, hasn’t he? His last film, 2012’s Flight, with an impeccable performance by Denzel Washington, did great at the box office, and people are still talking about that amazing opening airplane scene. He…
The Hundred-Foot Journey Review
Richard C. Morais’ novel The Hundred-Foot Journey is dominated by three personalities. The first is “Papa,” the bull-headed patriarch of the Haji family who flee religious violence in Mumbai to open an Indian restaurant in the quaint French village of…